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#21 /* 2 years, 11 months ago */
That Norton is clearly a poor antivirus choice is evidenced here, but many follow the hype and install it. Making the decision to delete it is a no-brainer; however, completely purging XP of ALL references to Norton is a tiresome process. A good registry editor with search is needed for the final deletes...may be
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Gravatar Ian Carter Anonymous User
#22 /* 2 years, 11 months ago */
I know that you recommend an antivirus from the top five. I solved the problem another way. I use Prevx1, ClamWin (no.40, I believe on you rating), ewido (paid), ZoneAlarm Pro (no antivirus, but an anti-spyware), RootkitRevealer, and SpywareBlaster. Prevx1, ZoneAlarm Anti-spyware, and ewido have real-time protection. Prevx1 protects all attack vectors except those protected by firewalls. ClamWin, no real-time, but you can schedule to scan hourly, daily, weekday or weekly, ZoneAlarm Anti-spyware, ewido anti-spyware,RootkitRevealer, and SpywareBlaster (passive protection), and Wormguard (passive protection) are backups to Prevx's community HIPS approach. Perhaps though I should check the top five; I assume that one could turn off the real-time feature in each of them. That way one could have the detection efficacy of them in manual scans and scheduled scans; although ClamWin along with the others above may improve the detection of viruses and other malware. What do you think? I haven't tested the way that you did, but I cannot detect a slowdown in my system. XP Pro, AMD Athlon, 1.19 Ghz, 512 MB RAM.
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Gravatar SaintSatinStain Normal User
#23 /* 2 years, 11 months ago */
Great Work! I always thought that was happening, but had never been able to measure the impact of security systems. I started with Symantec, then McAfee, then Panda, then I just quit it. I tried AVast and was content with it until a new version came up and the performance started degrading. AVG seems to be a light antivirus with a good support, but I am now trying ClamWin, based on the open source ClamAV. It seems very very light on the system, but I would like to see some performance measures of it.
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Gravatar Joel Paula Anonymous User
#24 /* 2 years, 11 months ago */
An excellent article. I wish you had included more programs in the testing, e.g. Spyware Doctor, Process Guard, CounterSpy, etc. and also tested to see if combinations are additive or worse.

Regards to speeding Windows up, check out Hare and Zoom from http://www.dachshundsoftware.com Hare speeds things up and Zoom speeds up shut downs.

A test of whether defragging speeds things up might also be in order, since experts disagree on that.

thanks again
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Gravatar Hank Friedman Anonymous User
#25 /* 2 years, 11 months ago */
Very good article!
Like a lot of others, I've also had to remove the top offenders from bogged systems. I usually replace it with Avast.
I do have a request though.
Would it be possible to include CA's product line in there for future benchmarking and review?
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Gravatar Gary Gauthier Anonymous User
#26 /* 2 years, 11 months ago */
Lot's of work although I'm not sure how the VM environment will effect results it still seems worthwhile to give a relative comparison, so good job. The worst slow down I've ever seen was/is due to AOL. My sister-in-law had a laptop with 256MB of RAM and she could do little or nothing for 20 minutes after bootup.
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Gravatar Mike Timson Anonymous User
#27 /* 2 years, 11 months ago */
Great article...and I'm happy to see I was correct in NOT choosing to buy the Norton product that came with my new desktop. I was wondering what I was going to do when the "freebie" expired but then ...along came Windows Live Onecare. So far, so good...but it looks as tho there are even better options. THANKS for sharing and I'll certainly recommend this site to others.
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Gravatar Lexee Anonymous User
#28 /* 2 years, 11 months ago */
Thank you very much for this article. I shall be recommending to all my friends to stop using Norton from now on. I am going to start looking at AVG because I've heard good things about its scanning.

Thank you again, sir.
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Gravatar Ranjit Anonymous User
#29 /* 2 years, 11 months ago */
I didn't notice any comments about Symantec's Norton Systemworks. I'm currently a user of Systemworks 2002 which includes Norton's antivirus 2002. My system is kept very clean with various top rated anti-spyware software as well, usually 4. I've noticed it has slowed down on boot up tremendously. I've even tried Uniblue's "Speed up my pc" & "Registry Booster" but that only worked for the first few boots it seems. I"m running Win XP on a Gateway Solo 400sd4 Pentium 4 at 2.0 Ghz with 512 mb (maxed) DDR. with minimal startup menu. ZoneAlarm, Norton's antivirus, wi-fi, and now uniblue's speed up my pc. Help? Suggestions? Thanks.. much appreciated!
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Gravatar Kevin Anonymous User
#30 /* 2 years, 11 months ago */
Would be interesting, if you have the test system still to see the results from e-trust antivirus. It seems to be quite a bit snappier than Norton, and I'd love to have some statistics on it.
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Gravatar Doug RGCG Anonymous User
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